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ChatGPT Moves From Model Talk to Hardware Control
The phone question turns ChatGPT into a hardware story: users now treat remote compute as ordinary infrastructure for personal AI work.
The institutional move underneath the chatter is that hardware access is being separated from hardware possession. NVIDIA’s Vera coverage describes initial deliveries to Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX AI, and Oracle Cloud, with Oracle tied to hyperscale deployment plans in 2026 through hundreds of thousands of Vera CPUs. The grassroots version of that same structure is the phone-as-console question: users are learning to picture compute as something they invoke, not something they own [1]. The companies that make orchestration feel invisible gain the user relationship; the companies that only sell silicon inherit…